From: Alex Ramonsky (alex@ramonsky.com)
Date: Mon Jun 17 2002 - 02:02:27 MDT
The _real_ funny bit is that my decade or so of the life of the
'have-nots' didn't occur in a third world country at all...it was in
west cork, southern ireland, where masses of people live without
shelter, clean water and so on right next door to some millionaires
bungalow. It's a gas. If you manage to get a place with electricity or a
toilet you're too posh to speak to anyone else.
Shortly before I left I wired up an ancient cottage to run a computer
and one light, off a generator. People would quite happily carry drums
of diesel halfway up a mountain for the chance to use a PC for an hour.
As far as I know it's still there...
spike66 wrote:
> Alex Ramonsky wrote:
>
>> (Most people seemed to think that the 'poor' are people who can't
>> afford televisions etc. I found that a bit short-sighted). Ramonsky
>
>
> I should have specified, in *capitalist* societies, the poor
> have hamburger and televisions. spike
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